Geoffroy Lejeune, a reactionary crusade up to the “Journal du dimanche”

Geoffroy Lejeune, then editorial director of “Current Values”, invited with Eric Zemmour to a meeting organized by the Awakeners, in Versailles, on October 19, 2021. CYRIL BITTON / DIVERGENCE FOR “THE WORLD”

Geoffroy Lejeune savors his heist. On Friday June 23, the 34-year-old will be the new editorial director of the Sunday newspaper (JDD), as revealed The world. The one who will replace Jérôme Béglé at the head of the title evokes a “huge honour” in the press release formalizing his appointment. Stunned, the journalists of the weekly voted 96% for a renewable strike of twenty-four hours. The former editor of Current values doesn’t care; he has a road map and delights in provoking the spirits “well-meaning”.

Is the media world in turmoil? Geoffroy Lejeune celebrates in an Italian restaurant the birthday of Charlotte d’Ornellas, star of ” GOES ” who stood by his side in the VIP area of ​​Eric Zemmour’s meetings during the 2022 presidential campaign, with which he is preparing to land at the JDD. Around the table, Mathieu Bock-CoteCanadian journalist turned star of the CNews channel, Dimitri Pavlenko, daily presenter of Europe 1 – his friends from the Bolloré galaxy with whom he leads a reactionary crusade.

“Everyone thought it was a bad joke”sighs a tenor from Valmonde, parent company of Current values, from where Geoffroy Lejeune was ousted in early June, after a heated argument with its president. The plan was well established. Despite their tearful eyes when they announced their departure on CNews, Lejeune and d’Ornellas had negotiated everything weeks before.

One shot, one more. Geoffroy Lejeune is an ace in the matter. With his band of young wolves from ” GOES “he used to orchestrate them at the Bizetro, a bistro on 16e arrondist of Paris, a stone’s throw from the magazine’s headquarters – among them, Louis de Raguenel, now head of the political department of Europe 1, and Tugdual Denis, his number two, who succeeds him at Current values. He endorses the advice delivered in 2012 by far-right ideologue Patrick Buisson: “ Invest in the media. »

“He’s not my creature but he’s a dynamic boy”praises today Mr. Buisson, former director of Minute, befriended the Bolloré family by the uncle of the Breton billionaire. “Make no mistake, it’s a political battle that has opened up. The question is: who will give in? continues the former adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysée. So far, Bolloré has always won. He ran into a bronca on i-Télé, he cleaned up, he got his way. Bolloré is a man inhabited by Catholic faith and convictions, he will go all the way. This great figure of capital is not only driven by money and the cult of the Golden Calf. It is his right to choose people who share the ideas he believes in. »

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